The future of art education
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The reason why it’s [education] so important is because it’s a fight for what young people will think. It’s what young people should know, what all people might posses in information or knowledge in order to communicate with each other and even other cultures… It’s also a battlefield for the kind of place that you would live it, it would define the people around you and it would also define the education level of people who vote in a democracy.
The act of me declaring myself a student is as important as the act of me declaring myself the teacher or master in any given situation, and I like to exchange that from time to time.
Education, and in particular learning, is like one of these wonderful self-fulfilling prophecies. As soon as you can articulate what you want to know, it is there for your grasp.
Talking about not knowing and knowing and the space between, is a great privilege… It’s about a bridge. When you talk about not knowing something, it is almost the precise formation of what you wish to know.
It’s education I can’t stand, but it’s learning I love.